Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Truth is a tendency.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Truth is a pathless land.
As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.